Ethiopia-Somalia conflict in 1977/78

[cubano]

I would like to talk about this war and Why did Siad Barre lose the war?

 

 

What happened to WSLF after the war?

 

 

A Somali colonel(Abdullahi Ahmed Jama),member of Siad Barre army talks about the War in 1977:

 

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a207996.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

The local conflict on the Horn permitted the application of Soviet power and

militated against a commensurate Western response; thus the Russian intervention

reversed the outcome of the conflict in favor of Ethiopia militarily at the

present time

 

By early 1978, the Russians had concentrated large

amounts of arms, equipment, and military personnel in Ethiopia. Cuban troops

from different places, but mainly from Angola, South Yemeni troops, Libyans,

and East Germans were in preparation for conducting the final and fatal blow

to Somalia

 

In 1977, Somalia was involved in an all out war with Ethiopia over the

Ogaden region, and the Somali conquest of the Ogaden would undoubtedly have

been successful except for foreign, particularly Russian, intervention